Know the culture!

As a new employee in any organisation I concentrated on value, and productivity,
while the stakes are more if I would have given enough weightage to the culture, of the organisation you are working for and the client you need to interact.

Only then you will know, what ticks a company and its employees. In an organisation like IBM(since I had prior experience working here I feel I better quote it) Failure is not considered bad as long as you draw lessons that enable you to work better in future.

Not all companies respond to the failure and express same degree of resilience ... So I think it makes a lot of sense to observe and understand the culture.